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| Sierra Sports: Grand Prix Legends | 
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| From: Sierra
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $14.57
You Save: $25.42 (64%)
New (5) Used (8) from $6.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 13805
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.7 x 2
Model: 70481
UPC: 020626704816
EAN: 0020626704816
ASIN: B00001LCDH
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Comes with 1 original CD brand new in sealed CD sleeve. Manual available on PDF file. No box.
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| Customer Reviews:
Blood, sweat and tears! The best ever December 13, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've spent thousands of hours on auto racing sims, from beta tester to reatil buyer. No game lives up to the disipline needed to conquer GP Legends by Sierra/Papyrus. Sure, you can probably win if you use the guardrail and no damage at Monza, but if you run in realistic mode (Grand Prix), you'll be humbled quickly by this games realism. The best I've ever done was a fourth in the French Grand Prix, and I was very proud. Heck, I've won at Talladega at 102-percent on the company's NASCAR sim, but came nowhere near the front playing reralistic in GPL. Once i was leading the French race with three to go, and blew the motor in my BRM ---drats.
This is the sim for those who demand realism --- if you've won in this sim, you are indeed amongst the few.
GZ
Still A Legend After All These Years December 12, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this game during its second week of release way back in 1998 and at the time had a computer that just met the minimum requirements, i.e. couldn't run the thing worth a darn. Even on 16 colour, no graphics, two cars displayed it was mighty tough. So, needless to say it sat on the shelf. Having been a seasoned racesim vet from titles ranging back to the original Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 1 I would try to get on GPL and spun like I was on ice everytime. Could maybe string together one lap around the 'Glen, then I'd juice it coming out of the last corner and junk it all. After purchasing a new computer a few years ago, I found GPL in my stack of CDs and threw it back on. Knowing of the relevant patches released subsequently, I loaded those up, fired up the sim and gave it another go. Still just as frustrating to drive, but the beauty began to shine through. I switched for a year or so to the NASCAR sims and the EA F1 series and quickly got those down, enjoyed the multiplayer experience, etc...Then, the epiphany. About two months ago I revisited GPL after finding some sites with new tracks, editors, carsets, sounds, etc...and re-discovered the greatest racing game ever made. Period. There has been nothing else close, and unless they spool up this model and update the cars to the beasts of the '70s, will not make one like this for some time. Everything about this game is rewarding/frustrating at the same time. Nothing will get you more down than flowing through the Dutch GP until you hit the tunnel and put a wheel wrong from being the least bit ambitious on the throttle. But when you finish a race, let alone win one, you are on top and to see your name in the paper at the end, it is greatness. The best, Jerry, the best. Join VROC, get in the competition and get involved. You will not be more rewarded through hours of practise and honing your set-ups than you will in this game. I would assume if you are reading this you've picked up somewhere that this game is a must, and it is. If you are a seasoned GPL player, then you'll appreciate this write-up as I've appreciated other people's praise of the game. Enjoy fellas, and gentleman..good luck, gentleman.
GPL - the best ever F1 racing sim. (period) August 10, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been playing this game pretty much since it was released. learning curve is high! Your only hope is to do your homework. get car setups from many places on the web, trust me, if you don't have the proper set up, you have no chance of even keeping the car on the track. With the proper setup these cars are a blast to drive! Can you say 150mph power slides! Graphics are fantastic, again, there are many, many graphical add-ons out there! The only bad thing I'll say about this game is: I wish sierra would create a follow-up that covers the 70's. If you find the cars impossible to drive, get the set-ups. If you think the graphics are weak, look for graphical add-ons. One last thing, if you don't have a wheel, you probably should not be playing this or any other F1 simulator.
Grand Prix Legends - still the best racing sim available. July 2, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
GPL wasn't a huge success on release. Despite being based on the 1967 F1 season, Grand Prix Legends was ahead of its time. To say the 133mhz minimum specs on the box are optimistic would be the understatement of the year. Its also an uncompromising sim in the physics sense to the point that its still seen as the benchmark racing sim - the yardstick by which all others are measured. The cars simulated in GPL are also by general concensus some of the most difficult to drive cars of any era - they certainly knew how to pick their years! All of this added up to mean not many people bought GPL, and those that did had hardware trouble or driving trouble - it can be frustrating to begin with but its really worth it. ;)Hardware wise, anything from a P2 300 will get you going if you're running a 3dfx card, but if you're running Direct 3d you'll be wanting 500mhz+, the more the better. Plus you NEED a steering wheel and pedals, or a decent analogue joystick at least. No gamepads. No keyboards. You won't experience the full effects of the physics with them. Analogue control on the throttle and brake allows you to spin and lock the wheels - without it you'll be running a crude form of traction control and ABS - you'll never get the most out of the car. So anyway, being 1967, GPL takes in an era of some of the most evocative names in terms of both cars and drivers. Available for your driving pleasure are: Lotus 49, Eagle T1G, Ferrari 312, BRM P83, Brabham BT24, and a couple of "ringers" (cars they never got the rights for) which are clearly the Cooper T81 and Honda RA300. Drivers you'll be swapping paint with include: Jim Clark, Graham Hill, John Surtees, Mike Parkes, Dan Gurney, Lorenzo Bandini, Jack Brabham and Pedro Rodriguez. The feeling of speed is conveyed better than I have seen in any game before or since, its not just the speed at which the scenery flashes past, its the subtle things - the wind noise, the suspension movements and wheel-lockups viewed from the cockpit. Sit in the pits and blip the throttle in neutral...the car rocks slightly from the torque of the engine. The driving style you need to adapt to become fast is the one that ruled the tracks back in the day - oversteer, powersliding, steering with the throttle..call it what you will. While GPL has a steep learning curve (you'll likely spend your first few hours spinning like a top!) it pays you back with interest when you nail a decent lap and revel in the replay through GPL's peerless replay camera choices. The tracks themselves are from an era safety forgot - the Nurburgring being the finest example. Precious little in the way of armco and non-existant runoffs/sandtraps. 176 turns and 14.5 miles of tree-lined hell PER LAP! An average speed of over 100 mph...more of like a challenging modern rally stage than a race circuit - this is a game which actually has a way of scaring you!
All the tracks in GPL are pretty accurately modelled by all accounts. The same must be said of many of the addon tracks available for download free on the internet, they broke the 200 barrier recently, with new additions seemingly every day. Heres just a few of my personal favourites: Snetterton, Goodwood, Aintree, Crystal Palace, Le Mans Sarthe, Bremgarten, Circuit Bugatti, Keimola, Leipzig, Castle Combe, Croft, Brands Hatch Indy, Bathurst.
And thats a FRACTION of whats available! With Vroc for online racing with up to 18 other people in far-flung corners of the globe, GPL is as good as racing gets on your PC.
In conclusion, a must for any motorsport fan or sim racer. Especially ones who think they're a bit good at driving ;)...
Best Racing Sim Ever ! July 1, 2002
I moved on to GPL from the NFS series of games and have never regretted it. 3 years after being created there are hundreds of new tracks, improved track and car graphics, utilities, movies, and websites dedicated to this game. Its the best Sim ever, bar none!rms
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